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The new production is a shorter version of the trilogy - it was just called "Torch Song" maybe they should have consulted with the producers of the recent revival of " Boys in the Band" who had hit by casting it with stars and turning into a must see event.

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The new production is a shorter version of the trilogy - it was just called "Torch Song" maybe they should have consulted with the producers of the recent revival of " Boys in the Band" who had hit by casting it with stars and turning into a must see event.

You have a point!

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What a shame. It really takes a lot to catch people's attention these days. Now that we have same-sex marriage and RuPaul's Drag Race, the "outsider" angle of the play may have been blunted. Arnold worked in a hole-in-the-wall drag club, but now they're everywhere. Gay people still have a tough time sometimes, but the angst of Arnold battling with his family (mother) and trying to establish his own family may just read as quaint. I've always loved this play because it reflected my time and elements of my life; when you don't have that personal connection to your own life (ie: young people today) maybe it's easy to just pass over. Too bad.

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From what I've heard on TV about the Off-Broadway revival - the new, shortened "Torch Song" - and the Broadway revival, the producer and the playwright wanted to make a star out of Michael Urie, who played Arnold Beckoff.

And, having seen the Off-Broadway production, Michael Urie did give a great performance.

I even got to meet me in the lobby and thanked him for his performance.

I told him that I would never forget it.

As far as the Off-Broadway production was concerned, A STAR WAS BORN.

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As far as I'm concerned, Michael Urie is a star. I've seen him often -- last year, in The Government Inspector; in October 2018, in a reading of selections from Noel Coward's Tonight at 8:30; and a few years ago in a staged reading of Man of Mode, in which he brilliantly played Sir Fopling Flutter.

And of course he was quite wonderful in Lincoln Center Theater's production of Shows for Days (2015).That's the play at which Patti LuPone famously grabbed the ringing cell phone from an audience member.

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What a shame. It really takes a lot to catch people's attention these days. Now that we have same-sex marriage and RuPaul's Drag Race, the "outsider" angle of the play may have been blunted. Arnold worked in a hole-in-the-wall drag club, but now they're everywhere. Gay people still have a tough time sometimes, but the angst of Arnold battling with his family (mother) and trying to establish his own family may just read as quaint. I've always loved this play because it reflected my time and elements of my life; when you don't have that personal connection to your own life (ie: young people today) maybe it's easy to just pass over. Too bad.

"Boys in the Band" is older and is some ways dated- the explanations about the homosexual lifestyle seems a bit quaint now but it still works. We can look it now as historical piece about pre-Stonewall gay life- but those men on stage are at times painfully real- my husband was crying at the end.

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From what I've heard on TV about the Off-Broadway revival - the new, shortened "Torch Song" - and the Broadway revival, the producer and the playwright wanted to make a star out of Michael Urie, who played Arnold Beckoff.

And, having seen the Off-Broadway production, Michael Urie did give a great performance.

I even got to meet me in the lobby and thanked him for his performance.

I told him that I would never forget it.

As far as the Off-Broadway production was concerned, A STAR WAS BORN.

Well it did not work as far as selling theater tickets- which is bottom line when it comes to being a star. Urie might be a good actor but the audience did not seem interested- perhaps they needed to cast a bigger star name for the mother. I agree that drag queens are no longer the exotic creatures they use to be when the play was written. One of the reviews complain that some of the supporting roles were not well cast. I love to see this done for tv- are you listening Netflix

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"Boys in the Band" is older and is some ways dated- the explanations about the homosexual lifestyle seems a bit quaint now but it still works. We can look it now as historical piece about pre-Stonewall gay life- but those men on stage are at times painfully real- my husband was crying at the end.

Painful is right. The play gets a lot of deserved credit for the brilliant quips, but not enough for the fact that the play really lays it out in terms of the hurt gay men had to (and still have to in many cases) endure just to get along.

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Painful is right. The play gets a lot of deserved credit for the brilliant quips, but not enough for the fact that the play really lays it out in terms of the hurt gay men had to (and still have to in many cases) endure just to get along.

Every gay man connects to at least one of the characters in "Boys in the Band".